The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 152

On the deck of the first ship stood the three beggars whom Vassili had met formerly, and they said: ‘Heaven has blessed you, Vassili.’

Who acts: Vassili, ships, Heaven · What happens: stand, meet, say, bless · To what, where: three beggars, deck, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vassili, ships, Heaven), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 deck	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 deck	det
3	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 ship	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ship	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 ship	amod
7	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 deck	nmod
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 beggars	det
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 beggars	nummod
11	beggars	beggar	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stood	obj
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 met	obj
13	Vassili	Vassili	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 met	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 met	aux
15	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 beggars	acl:relcl
16	formerly	formerly	ADV	_	15 met	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 blessed	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 blessed	punct
23	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 blessed	nsubj
24	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 blessed	aux
25	blessed	bless	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 said	ccomp
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 blessed	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Vassili	punct
28	Vassili	Vassili	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 blessed	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past		the three beggars	the deck of the first ship		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beggar=Theme on deck=Destination
2	meet	past · perfect	Vassili	the three beggars		formerly property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	ships = ship				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	bless	present · perfect	Heaven	you		Vassili obl	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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